afoul
- adjective
- /əˈfaʊl/
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enredado
- The ropes got afoul of each other, making it difficult to set sail.
It can put you in legal peril, and that can include running afoul of criminal laws.
- It can put you in legal peril, and that can include running afoul of criminal laws.
- But I I do want to make this right because a bunch of people pointed out another group of people that I've run afoul of is the knitting community.
- It really sounds like Lizzo and team have run afoul of standard.
- But even there you can really run afoul of the people that get the, the, the whiny C students controlling too much of the censorship.
Examples
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He has fallen afoul of the law, Josh.
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It can put you in legal peril, and that can include running afoul of criminal laws.
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So I mean you, I, I fell afoul of like giving my, my little side characters too much fun.
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A second example of this perfect multicolinearity is and one that sort of researchers run afoul of all the time.
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He has fallen afoul of the law, Josh.
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What was in the trainings that you believe might have run afoul of those kinds of restrictions?
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It can put you in legal peril, and that can include running afoul of criminal laws.
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But even there you can really run afoul of the people that get the, the, the whiny C students controlling too much of the censorship.
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During the storm, the ship's sails became afoul with the rigging, causing a loss of control.
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When their plans ran afoul of the regulations, they knew they had to adjust their strategy.
Synonyms
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8.2
Twisted and caught so ropes or anchors do not move freely
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5.3
Twisted together, like wires, or stuck in a difficult situation
Tangled and caught so it cannot move, usually for ropes or anchors
Antonyms
How Tangled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Afoul comes from old sailor speech where a- means 'in' and foul means 'bad' or 'tangled', so ropes or sails 'afoul' were caught together on a ship. That's why afoul today means tangled, in a collision, or in trouble.